July 4th used to be my favorite holiday. Now, not so much. What happened?

Independence Day has always been a day to join friends and neighbors in the celebration of Americas greatness, its unparalleled achievements and its unbounded future. It was the one day it was cool to be a super patriot, and that was super cool.

We used to celebrate what President Reagan called, that shining city on a hill. America was a beacon of hope and bastion of freedom, an example to the world  a beacon and an example not because of special history but because of a special country  and even more important, a special destiny.

But looking around me on July 4th in 2012, thinking about what America has become, I got the sickening feeling that Independence Day has changed because our country has changed.

We still celebrate our past, but we are no longer confident of our future. We are realizing that the America of 2012, the America Obama and 50 years of progressivism have given us, has a very problematic future. Is this new transformed America even worth celebrating? For the first time in history, our sovereign debt has been downgraded.

Canada, not the United States, is now the most prosperous nation on earth, with average household net worth surpassing ours by $43,000, or about 13 percent. The number of people on food stamps has grown 50 percent in less than four years. The racial divide is larger than ever as progressive candidates increasingly play the race card to silence debate. Faith in government institutions is at an all-time low as dependence on government grows. Almost 50 percent of adults now pay no income taxes as Congress prepares to enact the largest tax increase in history on middle-class Americans and small business.

Canada, not the United States, is now the most prosperous nation on earth, with average household net worth surpassing ours by $43,000, or about 13 percent. The number of people on food stamps has grown 50 percent in less than four years.

We have more people on food stamps than the entire population of Canada and then some.

If we hold an election in 2016. I’m afraid the people want what they are getting right now. In fact, I expect they will vote for some more of it. Bread and circuses til the barbarians break down the gates—or, rather, waltz across the border.

Far too gloomy on Tancredos part. By calling July 4th no longer worth celebrating, hes surrendering to the left instead of inspiring a way out of their morass. It is now eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die and saying that is all that conservatives now represent.

Then again, Tancredo voted against deterring foreign arms transfers to China (cancels out his vote against permanent normalization of trade relations with them), and voted against keeping the travel ban to Cuba, so he must secretly like communism.

Try 2020 at the earliest. All those people who think that we can get Romney in and then we can replace him in 2016 are completely delusional or they are liars, because if he somehow wins, come 2015 and 2016, those same people are going to say we can't change horses mid-stream or we'll lose and we have to keep on supporting Willard Romney no matter what and therefore Romney must win in 2016.

They'll move the goalposts to 2020, and then in 2020, they'll support the next libtard with an (R) next to his name and tell us the same.

So let ole Uncle Tom sit on the sidelines and grieve. I will join others who want to overcome president downgrade and throw him out office. Poor ole Uncle Tom. Shows his colors when the going gets tough.

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posted on 07/21/2012 5:37:35 PM PDT
by righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)

But looking around me on July 4th in 2012, thinking about what America has become, I got the sickening feeling that Independence Day has changed because our country has changed.

We are America in name only. We have become a nation of non-Americans. Populated with people that have no historic, emotional, language, ancestral or cultural ties to 4th of July, just a place to get government cheese!!!

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